Perhaps six if you're serving smaller portions (
like in a shot glass).
Not exact matches
Repeat after me: «I'll would
like a
shot of silver tequila, mixed with two
shots of freshly squeezed lime juice -LCB- insist on this -RCB-, over ice,
in a salted
glass.»
I already know what it's
like to order a $ 20 cocktail at the Hudson, to get giddy on prosecco at the Pier, to feel fuzzy after too many
glasses of red at a wine bar on the Upper East Side, to
shoot astronauts
in Brooklyn (don't ask), to get drunk from some random spicy home - brew at a speak - easy
in the East Village, to slurp sickly sweet maraschino drinks at the Dominican joint
in Queens, to share a bottle of Patron with on - duty parking lot attendants
in SoHo (again, don't ask), and of course, the rounds of the seemingly requisite mimosas at brunch.
Casting
like a kid
in a candy store (what
in God's name is Benedict Cumberbatch doing here — as the holy fool, no less) and
shooting in a functional non-style that «opens up» the play by going
in for the kinds of close - ups you couldn't get without opera
glasses, Wells is a producer - turned - director through and through.
This morose tale of a beautiful Polish immigrant caught
in a sick love triangle with her pimp (Joaquin Phoenix) and his wacko magician brother (Jeremy Renner) is unrelentingly bleak, pretentious, and looked
like it was
shot through a
glass full of piss.
Unfortunately, a number of
shots are lacking
in focus, sometimes to an extreme where the 2D version feels
like you're watching the 3D version without
glasses on.
In a way Almereyda's film,
shot prior to most of the tech stocks going belly - up, anticipates the downswing: Its Wall Street is ghostly and devastated, full of
glass tombs that scrape a dismal sky and inhabited by, among other Gloomy Guses, a Hamlet (Ethan Hawke) who's hollowed - out
like so many victims of modern materialism and parental loss.
Aside from an excruciatingly mannered early scene
in which Angela and Ricky's Aunt Martha (Desiree Gould) comes on
like Parker Posey chewing tinfoil while scraping a knife against a
glass bottle with one hand and dragging her fingernails down a chalkboard with the other, the rest of the film is pretty plain: Sleepaway Camp is
shot like a 1970s TV sitcom, and as a look back at anno domini 1983, it has a documentary quality.
Arrival is also stunning on a technical level, featuring excellently composed vantage point
shots of the alien spaceship pods (they are also fascinatingly designed looking
like tall, black metallic ovals suspended off the ground by roughly 20 or 30 feet), and very mysterious
shots of the tentacle style aliens surrounded
in a white mist while separated from the humans by a
glass wall.
Inspired by these Mexican botanas, I
like to arrange long strips of jicama
in tequila
shot glasses and bring them to the table as an amuse - bouche.
Apple juice looks just
like Tequila
in a
shot glass!
Cooked bacon sandwiches for Sprogs» breakfast (to remove temptation from fridge for The Great Famine of 2012); did grocery shopping; bought Husband six - pack of beer for New Year's Eve party; bought chooks 25 kg bag of scratch mix; staggered to car with 25 kg bag of scratch mix; washed and hung out two loads of washing; filled recycling bin with empty bottles and cartons; baked eggshells to make grit for chooks; assembled wraps for Husband and Sprogs for lunch; baked banana bread to use up manky banana supplies; baked biscuits with Sprog 2, who doesn't
like banana bread; shut back door 50 times to stop plague of mozzies getting
in; shut front door 20 times to stop plague of mozzies getting
in; killed lots of mozzies; threw out old magazines and newspapers; put crap away from recent car trip; cleaned chook shit out of chook house; sorted three baskets of clean laundry; unpacked and repacked diswasher; returned to supermarket for forgotten essentials: toilet paper, broccoli, sparklers and last
shot of caffeine before The Great Famine of 2012; cooked dinner; washed Sprogs» hair and painted Sprog 2's toenails rainbow colours for New Year's Eve party; copped grief from Husband for painting Sprog 2's toenails (some sexualisation nonsense); went to New Year's Eve Party; reluctantly abandoned third
glass of French champagne after being reminded of designated driver status; drove Husband and Sprogs home from New Year's Eve party; took Unisom; collapsed
in bed at 11.50 pm.